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CVAC Centre Officers

Name Position
Professor Christina Riggs CVAC Co-Director
Dr Tom Stammers  CVAC Co-Director
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova CVAC Emeritus Director 
Andrew Moss  CVAC Senior Research Administrator  

CVAC Steering Group Members

Name Position
Dr Sare Aricanli  Department of History
Mrs Alix Collingwood-Swinburn Curator of Western Art
Professor Stefano Cracolici School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor Mike Crang Department of Geography
Dr Cathie Draycott  Department of Archaeology
Professor Claudia Hopkins Director of Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art
Professor Jonathan Long School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Irini Picolou PhD Researcher in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor Christina Riggs Department of History
Dr Zoe Roth School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Dr William Schaefer School of Modern Languages and Cultures/Director, BA in Visual Arts and Film
Rhodri Sheldrake-Davies PhD Researcher in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Dr Tom Stammers  Department of History 
Professor Janet Stewart School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Director of MA in Visual Arts and Cultures 

Name Position
Dr Fusako Innami School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Durham Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme in Visual Culture Principal Investigator 

Name Contact
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova  CVAC Admin 

CVAC Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers 

Name Position
Christoph Doppelhofer  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Dr Lara Ehrenfried  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Kimberley Foy  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Louise Garner  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Tristan Lake  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar 
Dr Vanessa Longden  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Dr Felicity McDowall 

Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography
Dr Marcus Meer  

Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar

Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Historical Institute, London
Dr Lisa-Elen Meyering  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Antonia Miejluk   Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar 
Seren Nolan  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Petr Nuska  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Iris Ordean  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar 
Joshua Podmore  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Lenka Schmalisch   Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar
Laura Sillars  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar 
Dr Nelli Stavropoulou  Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar